Kent’s Christmas calendar with dates for pantos, light switch-ons and festive markets
Published: 05:00, 01 November 2024
Updated: 11:03, 18 November 2024
Move over, October — November is here, and that means it’s finally time to get into the festive spirit and start filling your calendar with those all-important Christmas dates.
Whether it’s supporting the community at your local light switch-on, booking a family trip to the panto or visiting some of Kent’s biggest attractions for a day of festive fun, here’s our guide to Christmas in Kent…
NOVEMBER
Saturday 9: Bluewater’s Winterland opens
Friday 15: Canterbury Christmas Market opens
Friday 15: Canterbury light switch-on
Friday 15: Christmas at Bedgebury light trail opens
Friday 15: Folkestone Creative Quarter light switch-on
Friday 15: Folkestone Harbour Christmas Market opens
Friday 15: Tunbridge Wells light switch-on
Saturday 16: Dartford light switch-on
Saturday 16: Gravesend light switch-on
Saturday 16: Sittingbourne light switch-on
Saturday 16: Westwood Cross Christmas Market opens
Sunday 17: Herne Bay light switch-on
Sunday 17: West Malling light switch-on
Thursday 21: Maidstone light switch-on
Friday 22: Christmas Lights at Leeds Castle trail opens
Friday 22: Hever Castle’s Christmas in the Castle opens
Friday 22: Marlowe Theatre’s Beauty and the Beast panto opens
Friday 22: Tenterden light switch-on
Friday 22: Tenterden Christmas Market opens
Saturday 23: Ashford’s Carnival of the Baubles
Saturday 23: Deal light switch-on
Saturday 23: Leeds Castle’s A Nutcracker Christmas opens
Sunday 24: Historic Dockyard Chatham’s Mission Christmas opens
Sunday 24: Paddock Wood light switch-on
Sunday 24: Ramsgate light switch-on
Sunday 24: Tonbridge Castle’s Illuminate light trail opens
Sunday 24: Tonbridge light switch-on
Friday 29: Rochester Castle Christmas Market opens
Saturday 30: Borough Green light switch-on
Saturday 30: Faversham light switch-on
Saturday 30: Hazlitt Theatre’s Cinderella panto opens
Saturday 30: Sandwich light switch-on
Saturday 30: Sevenoaks light switch-on
Saturday 30: Whitstable light switch-on
DECEMBER
Sunday 1: Westgate-on-Sea light switch-on
Friday 6: The Woodville’s Jack and the Beanstalk panto opens
Saturday 7: Churchill Theatre’s Snow White panto opens
Saturday 7: Dover light switch-on
Saturday 7: Rochester’s Dickensian Christmas Festival
Saturday 7: Sarah Thorne Theatre’s Aladdin panto opens
Sunday 8: Rochester’s Dickensian Christmas Festival
Thursday 12: Central Theatre’s Jack and the Beanstalk panto opens
Friday 13: EM Forster Theatre’s Snow White panto opens
Friday 13: Leas Cliff Hall’s Wizard of Oz panto opens
Saturday 14: Dreamland’s Christmas World opens
Saturday 14: Granville Theatre’s Peter Pan panto opens
Saturday 14: Orchard West Theatre’s Sleeping Beauty panto opens
Saturday 14: Rochester Cathedral Christmas Carols
Saturday 14: Trinity Theatre’s Sleeping Beauty panto opens
Sunday 15: Festival of Carols at Canterbury Cathedral
Thursday 19: Canterbury Cathedral Christmas Carols
Friday 20: Astor Theatre’s Jack and the Beanstalk panto opens
Friday 20: Rylance Theatre’s Snow White panto opens
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Sam Lawrie